Swinford Town Hall — Station Road

Detached three-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey town hall, designed 1909; built 1909-10; extant 1911, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (seven-bay deep) single-storey central return (north-east). In alternative use, 1945-7. For sale, 2010. Now disused. Hipped slate roof with pitched slate roof (north-east), clay or terracotta ridge tiles, Red brick English Garden Wall bond chimney stacks having stringcourses below corbelled stepped capping supporting yellow terracotta tapered pots, and replacement uPVC rainwater goods on timber eaves boards on slightly overhanging timber boarded box eaves having paired timber consoles retaining cast-iron downpipes. Part creeper- or ivy-covered roughcast walls on rendered chamfered plinth with rusticated rendered piers to corners supporting rendered band to eaves. Round-headed central door opening with step threshold, and rendered surround centred on keystone framing timber panelled double doors having overlight. Paired round-headed flanking window openings with drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills on rendered aprons, and rendered surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Camber-headed window openings (first floor) centred on camber-headed opening behind wrought iron balconette with camber-headed window openings to side elevations, drag edged dragged cut-limestone sills on rendered aprons, and rendered surrounds framing one-over-one timber sash windows. Interior including (ground floor): central entrance hall retaining timber surrounds to door openings framing timber panelled doors. Street fronted with tarmacadam footpath to front.